Person Serving Case Study

The person served in this case study is a 35-year-old woman, who is a mother and wife. Her occupation was not stated however she is a rising professional. The person who was served drug of choice is prescription medication and muscle relaxers. The person served according to her substance history, she has a substance addiction not a process addiction. A substance addiction is regarding drugs and alcohol. A process addiction is more so behavioral, such as love, sex, and/or gambling. The person served three years ago, began a path of addiction to pain medication and it started to spiral out of control when she was able to order the medication online. The person served than went into a treatment program and appeared she maintained abstinence
It appears that the Clinician in this case was unable to tap into the person served motivations to buy-in to treatment, in efforts to gain some tools to abstain from substances. The Clinician is to make a clinical decision to recommend the level of care the person served is appropriate for. Evidence based assessments are to be conducted to determine the best level of care for the person served. It appears the Clinician allowed the person served and her husband to determine how treatment will be conducted. There was no mention of evidence-based practices the Clinician could have employed to motivate the person served to buy-in to the treatment process. According to Los Reyes and Kazdin, “Although a given study might reveal inconsistent outcomes—and this raises significant issues—this ought to be presented in the context of a key reality: Hundreds of ‘‘evidenceless’’ treatments are being administered to patients (Kazdin, 2000), and some evidence, although inconsistent, is clearly better than none. We do not advocate non-EBTs where EBTs are available. (2008). Utilizing an Evidence based program allows the Clinician to use a set of guidelines that was researched for treatment effectiveness. What is Evidence Based Treatment, according to Eliason, “Evidence-based practices are generally those specific treatment approaches or procedures that have been subjected to randomized clinical trials or other experimental research designs, and have been found to be more effective than “treatment as usual.” They are often developed in the form of clinical practice manuals, sets of specific procedures or techniques, or treatment modalities that are well elucidated.” (2007) The Clinician in this case study mentioned no use of an evidence based treatment approach to treat both the person served and her